This landmark law establishes, for the first time in Colombia and the region, safeguards to ensure that beef sold in supermarkets is not linked to deforestation.
Esta emblemática ley establece, por primera vez en Colombia y la región, salvaguardas para garantizar que la carne que se vende en supermercados no esté vinculada con la deforestación.
EIA US joins our partners in celebrating the passage of a bill to close longstanding loopholes that have allowed New York state agencies to continue purchasing tropical wood products despite existing restrictions meant to protect tropical forests from rampant unsustainable and often illegal logging.
A new investigation has uncovered widespread illegal logging in the largest Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon and traced exports of illicitly produced rainforest timber to the shores of Europe and the United States.
Acting on EIA’s intelligence, Peruvian customs authorities stopped approximately 4 tons of Mexican mercury in June 2025, the largest seizure ever reported by an Amazonian country. This groundbreaking case sheds new light on the enforcement gaps and loopholes of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, raising urgent questions about its effectiveness to face the often highly covert and organized criminal groups that control mercury and gold trafficking.
Debido a la información proporcionada por EIA, las autoridades aduaneras peruanas detuvieron aproximadamente 4 toneladas de mercurio mexicano en junio de 2025, la mayor incautación jamás reportada por un país amazónico. Este caso sin precedentes pone en evidencia las brechas de aplicación y los vacíos legales del Convenio de Minamata, planteando interrogantes urgentes sobre su efectividad para enfrentar a los grupos criminales que a menudo operan de manera altamente encubierta para controlar el tráfico de mercurio y oro.